Ryan

What I read in the back half of 2025: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...

honestly one of the strongest runs of books I've read since I started tracking them

Putting out a beta of my home game, The Drowned Isles!

Blog about it: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...

And the game itself: drowned-isles.fools-pyrite.com

What I've been reading recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...

I don’t think it’s generally accepted but I’ve used “the mermaid problem” after tpsrpg.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-...

you can smile again, number six

New blog post: I read a lot of books and wrote down how I felt about em. A lot of sff that didn’t thrill me and a lot of queer/trans literature that did

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programmer encounters linear algebra for the first time: (audible discomfort) strange. this vector.......... it's fixed-length and immutable. it's almost like some kind of........... tuple

I read the whole series as a kid I think. It was... extremely strange

When I got to work on a dev team that was 50% women, I learned that a lot of the things programmers refuse to do (learn CSS/UX, document code, write tests, etc.) are seen as women's work. which is why dominant programming culture refuses to do them

I’m pleasantly surprised that it hurt less this time (my first time was 6 weeks ago). The dermatologist told me the painful part is when the laser does actually heat up a hair follicle enough to destroy it, so as we progress it hurts less

The Utena adjacent-beds-but-facing-different-ways shows up in the ED… they knew what they were doing

What a coincidence, I’m about to pay someone $250 to shoot my face with a laser for 20 minutes

If you’re willing to add a bunch of tooling, there are some pretty good lints in typescript-eslint that enforce “promises may not be returned as void in async functions” and “non-promise expressions may not be awaited.”

Like in React-land I feel like a linter is mandatory for me writing async

Every once in a while I'll get to tell someone, and they'll suddenly understand what I mean, that PbtA doesn't begin and end with the fiction, it begins and ends with the conversation.

"Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.

Bran wants Keeler’s backup in an ill-considered raid on Jackabacka’s junkyard. Keeler knows how ill-considered it is, though. “Oh come on, it’ll be fun,” Bran’s player says. He hits the roll with a 7. “So, the carrot or the stick?” Keeler’s player says. “The carrot,” he says. “You’ve got hard highlighted, yeah? The way I figure it, with that, plus one from me, this raid could give you enough experience to get a whole improvement.” “Hm,” Keeler’s player says. “at’s an interesting point.”

Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.

Wrote a blog post about playing my DIY rpg: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...

I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer

oh hey it's me :) you should vote for me for debut blog

I wrote up how I felt about ICON after a ~30-session-campaign: fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...

(TL;DR: game well designed but I don't know if I vibe with the structure)

here's a computer take: it didn't actually take that much computing power to go to the moon

Wrote about some things I've read recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...

Sorry if I misunderstood, but the orphan rules don't prevent you from having two different versions of a library (Rust supports this pretty well, except for sometimes confusing error messages).

They prevent two unrelated libraries colliding in their attempt to impl a foreign trait on a foreign type

as bsky gains momentum two things become clear:
1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow
2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious

Yeah I can't imagine any workflow other than "when we poll the feed, chuck the XML in the parser" and the parser would have to be able to handle RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom. It seems like more trouble than it's worth to remember if a feed was Atom or RSS last time you checked

Mildly silly but you could create a dummy Atom feed, load it into a couple readers (Feedly, InoReader, something else) and then convert it to RSS and see how they respond

I think there's a small chance that the feed reader could mark every post as new because it's a new feed structure? But if the posts have unique IDs that stay the same across the feeds, it should be fine...

New blog post! I played a session of ICON (fantasy RPG from one of the Lancer creators) and wrote down some thoughts. TL;DR: totally unremarkable FitD game stapled to an exciting tactics game

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Ooo, thank you!

Hello! I'm new to BlueSky and don't understand it at all yet. I do have my latest blog post up to share:

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